Heidi Christianson has a diverse background in education. She has taught in the university, community college, private school, and charter school environments. She has also been homeschooling her five sons for 19 years. Her quest to personalize her own children’s education has led her on a journey that has included helping found her local commonwealth school (a homeschool community), writing her own curriculum, public speaking (CHN Family Expo, Great Homeschool Convention, Back to Basics Forum), and putting on several conferences (Transformational Education). She currently is the principal mentor for her commonwealth, a teacher with a charter school that works with homeschooling families, a Leadership Education Mentoring Institute trainer and the founder of The Genius Paradigm. Her California teaching credential is a single subject – Social Studies. She currently has students on her roster in TK-12th grade.